SOLUTION: Two trains are 500 miles apart when they first enter a collision course. If, after two hours, the distance between them is 300 miles and one train goes 20 miles faster than the oth

Question 1033376: Two trains are 500 miles apart when they first enter a collision course. If, after two hours, the distance between them is 300 miles and one train goes 20 miles faster than the other, find the speed of the faster train.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if the distance between them is 300 miles,
they have traveled 200 miles combined distance
Let their speeds be mi/hr for slower train and
mi/hr for the faster train
You are given that:

and

The faster train's speed is 60 mi/hr
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